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The Black Legend of ‘Francis the Marxist’
November 29, 2017
The Political Pope by George Neumayr, Center Street, 304pp, £20 What Pope Francis Really Said by Tom Hoopes, Servant Publications, 160pp, £9 George Neumayr’s The Political Pope isn’t a bad book. In fact, it’s not really a book at all. About 75 per cent of the text is block quotes, and 25 per cent is
Why the bishops said no to Cupich
November 23, 2017
In 2014, Pope Francis moved Bishop Blase Cupich from the Diocese of Spokane (Catholic population: 100,000) to the Archdiocese of Chicago (two million). With his neatly parted hair and clear, quick speech, he could easily pass for a priest of Opus Dei. Yet his promotion set off alarm bells with conservatives, who had not seen
The unlikely champions of married priests
November 16, 2017
It might baffle Catholics elsewhere, but in England many supporters of clerical marriage are conservative
The unlikely champions of married priests
November 16, 2017
Charles Kingsley, the author of The Water-Babies, was a notorious baiter of papists. He viewed celibacy in our clergy, and that of John Henry Newman in particular, as a mark of effeminacy. “Cunning is the weapon which heaven has given to the saints,” Kingsley sneered in an attack on the future cardinal, “to withstand the
Where the Church is booming – and withering
November 02, 2017
Nigeria Catholics make up only 25 per cent of Nigeria’s Christians. Nevertheless, the Nigerian Church is thriving – and staunchly traditional. Writing in the New York Times, Matthew Schmitz described how, “in front of 2,500 worshipers, Bishop Gregory Ochiagha performed the first traditional Latin ordination in Nigeria since the vernacular liturgy was introduced after Vatican
Michael Davis: A guide to Catholic cyber warriors
October 05, 2017
Fr James Martin SJ is Diane Feinstein’s kind of Catholic: the dogma doesn’t live so loudly within him. His book Building a Bridge sailed to the top of Amazon bestseller lists, partly thanks to the generous panning it received from conservatives. Indeed, Fr Martin – soft-spoken and studious, in true Jesuit fashion – may well
Archbishop Gómez has issued to stark message to America’s Catholic lawmakers
October 04, 2017
The archbishop may have given the most important homily for many years
Is Rome changing course on Medjugorje?
September 28, 2017
The Vatican appears to be heading for an unprecedented mixed verdict
Is Rome changing course on Medjugorje?
September 28, 2017
The Medjugorje movement is very much in tune with the Second Vatican Council. Devotees are prone to uplifting guitar music borrowed from charismatic Protestant revivals. They go in for those warped, El Greco-style crucifixes. They photoshop images of the Virgin Mary over the small Herzegovinian town where she has allegedly been appearing for four decades.
The religious order that defined Bosnian Catholicism
September 28, 2017
To understand why the Franciscans are so powerful in Medjugorje, you have to go back to the history of a region where Catholicism has generally struggled to gain a foothold. The Church first evangelised what is now Bosnia-Herzegovina in the 9th century, but it proved difficult to convert the inhabitants of this isolated and mountainous
Evelyn Waugh would have understood the point of the filial correction
September 26, 2017
It's bad manners to discuss the terrible effects of sin. Waugh, like the authors of the correction, broke the taboo
In the US, even the left love Rees-Mogg
September 16, 2017
Even a left-wing public radio station is enthralled by this 'son of a lord' who 'sounds like a character out of Downton Abbey'
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